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Saturday, November 06, 2004

Using Hitachi 7k60 with FreeBSD

Earlier this year I posted my experience using a ByteCC 2.5 HDD enclosure with FireWire and USB 2.0 plugged into an Adaptec DuoConnect PC Card adapter on my laptop. Then I used a 30 GB HDD and had no problems. Today I replaced that 30 GB HDD with a Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 60 GB 7200 RPM HDD. I noticed the kernel reporting errors like the following when I tried to copy data from my laptop to the external HDD: